... The Republican rump, the party that’s left after the election, will
be the party that attends Sarah Palin’s rallies, where crowds chant 'Vote McCain, not Hussein!' It will be the party of Saxby Chambliss,
the senator from Georgia, who, observing large-scale early voting by
African-Americans, warns his supporters that 'the other folks are
voting.' It will be the party that harbors menacing fantasies about
Barack Obama’s Marxist — or was that Islamic? — roots.
"Why will the G.O.P. become more, not less, extreme? For one thing, projections suggest that this election will drive many of the remaining Republican moderates out of Congress, while leaving the hard right in place. ... The Republican base already seems to be gearing up to regard defeat not as a verdict on conservative policies, but as the result of an evil conspiracy...
" ... This will pose a dilemma for moderate conservatives. Many of them spent the Bush years in denial, closing their eyes to the administration’s dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law. Some of them have tried to maintain that denial through this year’s election season, even as the McCain-Palin campaign’s tactics have grown ever uglier. But one of these days they’re going to have to realize that the G.O.P. has become the party of intolerance." ... Paul Krugman
"Why will the G.O.P. become more, not less, extreme? For one thing, projections suggest that this election will drive many of the remaining Republican moderates out of Congress, while leaving the hard right in place. ... The Republican base already seems to be gearing up to regard defeat not as a verdict on conservative policies, but as the result of an evil conspiracy...
" ... This will pose a dilemma for moderate conservatives. Many of them spent the Bush years in denial, closing their eyes to the administration’s dishonesty and contempt for the rule of law. Some of them have tried to maintain that denial through this year’s election season, even as the McCain-Palin campaign’s tactics have grown ever uglier. But one of these days they’re going to have to realize that the G.O.P. has become the party of intolerance." ... Paul Krugman
And then they'll do something about it?
